AAA Boycott Vote Postmortem
By now you have probably heard that the boycott vote failed by an incredibly narrow margin: In the end an astounding 51% of its 10,000 members participated. The…
Food Anthropology, A Tribute to Sidney W. Mintz
What are your essential articles for teaching a Food Anthropology course? What most distinguishes Food Anthropology from other ways of studying food? What are the most important insights…
June Events and Exhibitions, Including Arts in the Park at McCormick’s Creek
Check out some MMWC events and exhibitions this month. In particular, this Saturday (June 11, 2016) a great group of artists will join the Traditional Arts Indiana team…
Erinnern verboten: Liao Yiwu und Li Zhi über die Tian’anmen-Tragödie
Ein Sänger und ein Schrifsteller bemühen sich darum, dass die Tian’anmen-Tragödie von 1989 auch in China nicht in Vergessenheit gerät. In Hongkong versammeln sich am 4.…
Christine Wilson Award, July 1 Deadline!
REMINDER! Christine Wilson Award This is an exciting award for outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Exemplary graduate and undergraduate papers ar…
Inequality and “the Global Question”
To mark the publication of Global Inequality, the first book in UTP’s new Anthropological Insights series, author Kenneth McGill explains the process of writing a book about inequality…
A New Home for Ethnography: The Use and Legacy of Ethnography by Anthropologists and Non-Anthropologists
Rhiannon and I are currently completing an article that looks at ethnography at this moment in time. One thread in this discussion is the way in which ethnography…
New Discovery Expands the Hobbit Family Tree
Recently found fossil remains that are 700,000 years old provide new insights about the extinct species Homo floresiensis, which was originally discovered in 2003. Researchers have attributed the…
Anthro in the news 6/6/16
Muhammad Ali, The Greatest: Boxer and social activist Muhammad Ali in 1966. Source: Wikimedia Commons Newsday reported on the death of Muhammad Ali. It quoted cultural anthropologist Orin Starn…
Gastbeitrag zum “Salzburger Nachtstudio” von Eva Kalny
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! Als Auslandsösterreicherin höre ich regelmäßig und mit großem Interesse Ö1 und schätze die oft hochqualitativen Beiträge. Mit umso größerer Bestürzung habe ich das…
Die Ausdifferenzierung von Arbeitskleidung
Warum tragen Menschen Arbeitskleidung? Die augenscheinliche und historisch gesehen plausibelste Antwort auf diese Frage bildet wohl der Schutz, welcher Kleidung im Allgemeinen und im Speziellen bei de…
American Anthropological Association Votes Against Resolution to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
Elizabeth Redden reported today about the American Anthropological Association’s close vote against a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. She writes:A total of 2,423 AAA members voted …
Lao Camp Food (Part 2)
This is the second installment of a food journal I kept during several days in February camping with a bomb clearance team in Laos. If you missed my…
Where Has SARS Gone? The Strange Case of the Disappearing Coronavirus by Robert Peckham
The emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in China’s Guangdong Province in the winter of 2002 was an exemplary spillover event: it marked the passage of a…
A Little Social Science Cheerleading
In case anyone anywhere is looking for reasons why social scientists are needed in a societal sense or are arguing for the value of their degree, check out…
Teaching AAA 2016: Indexes and Icons
TEACHING THE 2016 AAA ANNUAL MEETING THEME: EVIDENCE, ACCIDENT, DISCOVERY Have you considered linking your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery? This new blog…
KÖRPER MIT GEWICHT #3
Dicke Mode-Vlogger Dass es einen breiten Alternativdiskurs zu den vorherrschenden dünnen Körperidealen gibt, zeigt ein weiterer Blick in die sozialen Medien. Dort finden sich unzählige Blogs und Vlogs…
Taiwans Präsidentin Tsai: Ein Statement für Demokratie in China
Tsai, die seit Mai 2016 das Präsidentenamt innehat, erklärt sich in einem öffentlichen Facebook-Post gegenüber der Demokratiebewegung, die gewaltsam von Regierungstruppen 1989 in Peking niedergeschlag…
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film entitled “Challenging the Dark…
Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film entitled “Challenging the Dark…
A Decolonial Turn in Anthropology? A View from the Pacific
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Lisa Uperesa Over the past two decades, non-White and non-Western scholars have posed serious challenges…